By Anne Brodie Jialing Zhang's disturbing documentary detailing China's 20 years of smart tech surveillance of its citizens is the stuff of nightmares. Award-winning festival hit Total Trust reveals through secret footage the ways and means authorities pursue grudges against citizens who …
The Spell of Exotica, or, a Good Djinn is Hard to Find, Workplace Blues, Godard, Momoa and Hitch!
By Anne Brodie Three Thousand Years of Longing, an ambitious fable based on Persian myths stars Tilda Swinton as Alithea, a prim, self-sufficient, and intellectual seeker, a narratologist who studies "all the stories in human history". She heads to Istanbul to speak at a story conference when a …
Early January = a Lot of Junk, Hence WIP and Old Treasures.
Ben Affleck and Daniel Ranieri in The Tender Bar on Amazon Prime Video By Anne Brodie. George Clooney directs The Tender Bar, starring Ben Affleck, based on J. R. Moehringer's memoir about growing up on Long Island, with Daniel Ranieri as young Moehringer and Tye Sheridan the elder. The boy, …
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